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From: "Fernando J. Pereda" <ferdy@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:04:54
Message-Id: 20050628090305.GA11530@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project by christian.hartmann@email.de
1 On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 10:39:52AM +0200, christian.hartmann@×××××.de wrote:
2 > > You want to become official.
3 >
4 > We are official. It's not just the way things should be.
5
6 Well... you want to become staff.
7
8 > > In that regard, you do not get to take care of your own things anymore.
9 >
10 > We will still recruit new mods/admins and take care of them. We will still moderate and administering the board and the software. We will still vote on new policies and guidelines. I fail to see what you mean by saying that.
11
12 Nope; if you become staff then devrel/recruiters will be involved. You
13 are no exception to the rule.
14
15 > > Every developer and staff has taken the quiz [...]
16 >
17 > Sorry, but thats not correct (at least to my knowledge). - Back in the good ol' days most of the developers knew each other and knew who was doing what. Taking a quiz became mandatory back in 2003 iirc. Devs who were already aboard did not need to take the quiz.
18
19 Those people were already gentoo staff, you aren't right now, so it's
20 not the same situation.
21
22 > > Again, I fail to see why the forum staff deserves an exception to the
23 > > rules that every other person that is either staff for Gentoo or a
24 > > developer for Gentoo has to follow.
25 >
26 > Well.. that's right. Rules should be followed.* If it would be up to me everybody of us would take that quiz and we could stop this discussion. But it's not up to me. - It's not that simple.
27
28 People managing the forums should take the responsability to make them
29 take the quiz and become official. Nobody said that being 'the boss' was
30 going to be easy.
31
32 Cheers,
33 Ferdy
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Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 38: Status of forum moderators in the Gentoo project Ioannis Aslanidis <aslanidis@×××××.com>